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Fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can nontrivially alter neutrino radiation field in core-collapase supernovae (CCSN) and binary neutron-star merger (BNSM) remnants. However, its interplay with global geometry remains poorly understood…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

Fast neutrino flavor conversion may impact the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae. A necessary condition for fast flavor conversion is the presence of crossings in the angular distribution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Marie Cornelius , Irene Tamborra , Malte Heinlein , Hans-Thomas Janka

Recent multi-dimensional (multi-D) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations characterize gravitational waves (GWs) and neutrino signals, offering insight into universal properties of CCSN independent of progenitor. Neutrino analysis in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-04 Hiroki Nagakura , David Vartanyan

The upcoming galactic core-collapse supernova is expected to produce a considerable number of neutrino events within terrestrial detectors. By using Bayesian inference techniques, we address the feasibility of distinguishing among various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Sajad Abbar , Maria Cristina Volpe

Neutrinos from a supernova (SN) might undergo fast flavor conversions near the collapsed stellar core. We perform a detailed study of this intriguing possibility, analyzing time-dependent state-of-the-art 3D SN models of 9 and 20 Msun. Both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Francesco Capozzi , Manibrata Sen , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi , Guenter Sigl

Neutrinos are known to undergo flavor conversion processes among the three flavors. The fast flavor conversion (FFC) has been the central piece of flavor conversions taking place in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) due to its shorter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Ryuichiro Akaho , Akira Ito , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

In astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs), neutrinos potentially experience substantial flavor mixing due to the refractive effects of neutrino self-interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Lucas Johns , Ryuichiro Akaho , Shoichi Yamada

We present the first simulations of core-collapse supernovae in axial symmetry with feedback from fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC). Our schematic treatment of FFCs assumes instantaneous flavor equilibration under the constraint of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Jakob Ehring , Sajad Abbar , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg Raffelt , Irene Tamborra

Neutrino evolution, of great importance in environments such as neutron star mergers (NSMs) because of their impact on explosive nucleosynthesis, is still poorly understood due to the high complexity and variety of possible flavor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 Julien Froustey , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Samuel D. Flynn , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

Neutrinos can experience fast flavor conversions (FFCs) in highly dense astrophysical environments, such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, potentially affecting energy transport and other processes. Simulating fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Haihao Shi , Zhenyang Huang , Qiyu Yan , Junda Zhou , Guoliang Lü , Xuefei Chen

A new chapter is opening in the theory of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers as simulations of these events begin to incorporate fast flavor conversion (FFC) and other forms of neutrino flavor mixing. Using numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Erick Urquilla , Lucas Johns

Fast neutrino flavor conversions (FFCs) and collisional flavor instabilities (CFIs) potentially affect the dynamics of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs). Under the assumption of homogeneous neutrinos,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Chinami Kato , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen

Neutrinos can rapidly change flavor in the inner dense regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers due to the neutrino fast flavor instability. If the amount of flavor transformation is significant, the FFI could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Sherwood Richers

Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as those in core-collapse supernovae can experience fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. It is believed that a necessary condition for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-22 Sajad Abbar

Dense neutrino systems, which display collectivity mediated by the weak interaction, have deep parallels with mean-field kinetic systems governed by other fundamental forces. We identify analogues in fast flavor conversion (FFC) of some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Jiabao Liu , Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

We present a linear stability analysis of the fast-pairwise neutrino flavor conversion based on a result of our latest axisymmetric core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulation with full Boltzmann neutrino transport. In the CCSN simulation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Hiroki Nagakura , Taiki Morinaga , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

We investigated the impact of a spatially varying matter potential $\lambda$, coming from neutrino-electron forward scattering, on the emergence of fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC) triggered by the presence of zero crossings in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

We calculate fast conversions of two flavor neutrinos by considering Boltzmann collisions of neutrino scatterings. In an idealized angular distribution of neutrinos with electron-lepton number crossing, we find that the collision terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Hirokazu Sasaki , Tomoya Takiwaki

The quantum kinetic evolution of neutrinos in dense environments, such as the core-collapse supernovae or the neutron star mergers, can result in fast flavor conversion (FFC), presenting a significant challenge to achieving robust…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-10 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin